Anthropy finally allowed more people to use it Cloud in Google Chrome. The company’s AI browser plugin is expansion The subscriber cap is over $200 per month and is now available to anyone who pays for a Claude subscription.
The Claude Chrome plugin allows easy access to Anthropic’s AI no matter where you are on the web, but its real appeal is how it allows Claude to navigate and use websites for you. Anthropic says Claude can fill out forms, manage your calendar and email, and complete multi-step workflows based on the prompt. The latest version of the plugin also features integration with Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding tool, and allows users to record workflows and “teach” Claude how to do what they want it to do.
Before agents became today’s buzzword, “computer use,” the ability of AI models to understand and interact with computer interfaces was a major focus at Anthropic and other AI companies. Computer use is now just one tool in agents’ larger tool bag, but understanding which digital buttons to click and how to click them is what makes Claude’s Chrome plugin possible.
OpenAI and Perplexity offer similar proxy capabilities in their ChatGPT Atlas and Comet browsers. At this point, the only AI company that doesn’t put its AI models entirely on the browser is Google. You can access Gemini in Google Chrome and ask questions about a web page, but Google has not yet allowed its AI model to navigate or use the web on a user’s behalf. These features, which were first demonstrated in Project Mariner, should be on the way.